Jennifer Haigh

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Jennifer Wasilko Haigh (born 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her critically acclaimed novel Mrs. Kimble (2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Outstanding First Fiction.

Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, and is a 1990 graduate of Dickinson College. After teaching in France on a Fulbright Fellowship, and working as a book and magazine editor, she resigned her position as senior editor of Self magazine in 1998 to pursue fiction writing full time. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Hartford Courant, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives on Boston's South Shore.

Her latest book, Baker Towers (2005), was a New York Times bestseller.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Dickinson Magazine profile, Summer 2003
• "Women Trying to Find Their Way in a Dying Coal Town" from The New York Times.
• "Cutaway" A short story from Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature (Number 8, Fall 2002).